The Charlie Kirk Show - Covid-19 was a Lab Leak, but is it a Bioweapon? with Dr. Richard Fleming and Darren Beattie
Aired: 2023-03-01
Duration: 34:49


=== Is COVID-19 a Bioweapon (09:31) ===

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[00:00:00]  Today at the Charlie Kirk Show, Dr. Fleming, great American, asked the question: Is COVID-19 a bioweapon?
[00:00:08]  And then Darren Beattie joins us to help address the allegations around Katie Hobbs and Lori Lightfoot.
[00:00:17]  Is her political career over?
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[00:01:24]  Last couple of days, a very strange report came from the Department of Energy.
[00:01:30]  That's weird.
[00:01:31]  Why is the Department of Energy issuing reports about the origins of COVID?
[00:01:35]  Well, the Department of Energy finds that COVID Wuhan leak theory is plausible, but with quote, low confidence.
[00:01:45]  That's a very deceiving headline.
[00:01:47]  If you actually read the report, they said that it probably came from a laboratory.
[00:01:51]  Why this is so that they're covering this up, and there's a reason they're covering it up.
[00:01:57]  To help explain, is Dr. Richard Fleming.
[00:02:00]  He's a physicist, a nuclear cardiologist, and an attorney with 53 years of research experience.
[00:02:06]  He has spent decades investigating what causes multiple health problems, including heart disease, cancer, SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19.
[00:02:15]  And he is with us right now.
[00:02:17]  Dr. Fleming, welcome to the program.
[00:02:19]  My pleasure to be here.
[00:02:20]  Thank you for the invitation.
[00:02:21]  So, Dr. Fleming, do you believe that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
[00:02:30]  So, I have no doubt that the viruses, SARS-CoV-2, which lead to the disease COVID-19, were paid for by U.S. taxpayers through a variety of agencies and between places in the United States, like the University of North Carolina and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, that these viruses were put together because the data shows there's probably three of them that we just called SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19.
[00:02:58]  And everybody said, oh, it's one virus.
[00:03:00]  But it looks like there's three of them.
[00:03:02]  We have the data in the book showing where the monies came from, who published what research, what patents were connected with it, the two critical patents, and it just lays it out in chronological sequence so that you can decide for yourself.
[00:03:16]  You can read the data, and Americans are not stupid people.
[00:03:21]  Unlike, I think, the perspective of the vast majority of politicians and bureaucrats, Americans have the ability to read through material and make sense out of it if that information is just shared with them.
[00:03:35]  So, why is the Department of Energy the one that is doing this report?
[00:03:40]  That doesn't make any sense to me.
[00:03:41]  I think of nuclear power plants when I think of the Department of Energy.
[00:03:45]  Right, you know, and as a physicist, so do I.
[00:03:47]  But the reality is, it's one of the agencies that didn't give money to this gain of function research.
[00:03:52]  I mean, the DOD did, Health and Human Services did, the National Science Foundation did, USAID, Department of Homeland Security, DOC, the Department of Commerce, Agriculture, and the Interior.
[00:04:04]  One agency that didn't give, apparently, that I've been able to find, who didn't provide a penny to this is the Energy Department.
[00:04:13]  And maybe they're the only ones who have the ability or integrity to look at the data and say, you know, it seems like Houston, we have a problem.
[00:04:24]  Why is it that this is so difficult to get a conclusive answer?
[00:04:29]  I mean, in your expertise, let's just put it this way: is there any chance that COVID came from a bat in the Himalayas?
[00:04:36]  That's my first response, which should be telling to you.
[00:04:39]  I mean, we have a greater chance right now of both you and I being simultaneously hit by two different meteorites than this having been naturally occurring.
[00:04:50]  Okay, that's very clear.
[00:04:52]  And so, therefore, why is it taking the government years?
[00:04:57]  And they're using this strange language, Doctor.
[00:04:59]  I mean, they came out.
[00:05:00]  This is so government.
[00:05:01]  It drives me nuts.
[00:05:02]  They say that it's plausible, but with low confidence.
[00:05:05]  Nobody talks this way, okay?
[00:05:07]  Why is this so difficult to just say, okay, this was man-made?
[00:05:13]  Instead, it's all these half-answers, cover-ups, and very cryptic middle language.
[00:05:19]  Yeah, because once you admit that the United States was intimately involved in the development of these biological viral weapons, you have to address the fact that the United States government has committed crimes against America and crimes against humanity.
[00:05:35]  And we like to think of Nazi Germany as being the types of people who do that and not Americans.
[00:05:40]  But the reality is, the development of these biological viral weapons that we lay out very clearly in the book that show way back 1999 and before, but you can watch Xi Zhang Li take the glycoprotein 120 from HIV, attach it to the spike protein of these viruses.
[00:06:00]  You can read the research papers where they took viruses that could not infect human beings and made them infect human beings.
[00:06:09]  You can read not only the biological weapons convention treaty, but you can read federal law, 18 USC, section 175, which specifically states that even if they had found viruses in caves, if they brought them out of the cave to a laboratory and manipulated them in any way, we are in violation of the biological weapons convention treaty and in federal law.
[00:06:37]  So once you admit that, now you're going to have to do something about it.
[00:06:42]  And they would really like to keep diverting people's attention, give you something to think about.
[00:06:48]  Okay, they talked about it, but now we're going to go on to the next problem.
[00:06:52]  And nobody's going to get punished for these criminal actions.
[00:06:56]  And the reality is, the United States, if we want to continue to be the United States of America, you know, the country that's this golden city on the hill that represents what humans are supposed to be, the freedoms that people are supposed to have, the integrity that people are supposed to have.
[00:07:13]  Once you admit that we violated that, now we have to address it.
[00:07:18]  And it would be a lot better if the United States addresses the mess that we were responsible for making than waiting for the rest of the world to come in because World War II, it wasn't the Germans that took apart what Hitler and all the people did in concentration camps.
[00:07:37]  It was the rest of the world.
[00:07:38]  If we're going to be the shiny city on the hill, it's incumbent on us to act on it.
[00:07:43]  And that's why we put together 10letters.org, the website, the number 10, followed by the word letters, L-A-T-T-E-R-S.org.
[00:07:50]  So, every American can demand that our government do what it's supposed to do.
[00:07:57]  It's simple to use.
[00:07:58]  You go on there, you fill it out, you put your name and address in.
[00:08:02]  And if you don't want that to show up, there's a box you can click.
[00:08:04]  It'll take your name and address off, but it at least will generate a letter to your governor and your attorney general, and then a six-page document that's an indictment letter that provides everything the state attorney generals and DAs need to prosecute these people because it's got the book,
[00:08:21]  it's got an affidavit that I put on there, it's got a deposition that I did under oath to a Texas court reporter here in Dallas, Texas, a little bit more than a year ago that lays out the detail of what happened.
[00:08:37]  It's done all the work for the attorney generals, and it's doing the work that needs to be done to hold these people accountable.
[00:08:44]  Because right now, everybody is getting this warm fuzzy feeling that this is all going away.
[00:08:49]  And doesn't it look nice that Randall Paul and the other people in Congress working on this, but they're not doing anything, they're not making anything go away.
[00:08:57]  In fact, all this has done is open Pandora's box because three and a half years ago, if you'd have asked when Americans roll up their sleeves for untested vaccines, which are nothing more than duplicate copies of the biological viral weapons that were made, three and a half years ago, Americans wouldn't have done that.
[00:09:17]  But since October, there's five new vaccines: one for cancer, one for amyloidosis of the heart, which is one of the causes, one of the problems that these viruses and vaccines cause.

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[00:12:23]  I want to play cut 36.
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=== Media Coverage Lies Exposed (04:54) ===

[00:12:45]  And this is not some sort of theory that is unfounded.
[00:12:48]  Listen to yourself about how the media covered this.
[00:12:51]  Play cut 36.
[00:12:53]  Tom Cotton a couple of days ago spouting a conspiracy theory that the Chinese made this virus up.
[00:13:00]  We know that it's been debunked that this virus was man-made or modified or anything like that.
[00:13:05]  Both scientists and the U.S. intelligence community agree that this coronavirus was not man-made.
[00:13:11]  That is not a possibility.
[00:13:12]  Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh with zero proof suggesting a Chinese bioweapon lab is to blame.
[00:13:18]  And yet this week, Donald Trump is still pushing the debunked bunkum.
[00:13:22]  The virus was not, not, not man-made.
[00:13:25]  And these are awful people.
[00:13:27]  I'm going to be honest.
[00:13:28]  They're just not good people.
[00:13:31]  Dr. Fleming, is the media going to ever backtrack on this?
[00:13:34]  Because thanks to your efforts, you're uncovering this.
[00:13:38]  You're keeping the pressure on.
[00:13:40]  What's the path forward here?
[00:13:43]  Well, I think eventually the media is going to have to uncover it, because with 10letters.org, once we get criminal indictments filed by the state attorney generals, that's going to change the entire environment in the United States and on the planet,
[00:13:57]  where the media is going to have to pay attention to the fact that Fauci and Gates and Cullens and these other people will be charged with actual criminal crimes for making biological viral weapons that there's no excuse.
[00:14:13]  for.
[00:14:13]  There's no pretend that there should be a reason for this.
[00:14:17]  They intentionally altered coronaviruses to make them infect people and to cause harm in people.
[00:14:25]  There's no way that they're going to get around this.
[00:14:28]  We're going to keep pushing until we actually get these criminal indictments on these individuals.
[00:14:34]  Sorry to interject, Doctor.
[00:14:35]  Isn't it true that Obama banned gain of function in 2014?
[00:14:39]  And therefore, how are they able to continue to do this?
[00:14:41]  They just do it in another country.
[00:14:44]  So, no, gain of function was banned for three years from 2014 to 2017.
[00:14:49]  And it wasn't because of Obama.
[00:14:51]  It was because of scientists who insisted that there was a problem and put pressure on him.
[00:14:55]  But in 2017, this was opened back up.
[00:14:58]  And Fort Dietrich actually tried to recruit me as the physicist to work on infectious viruses in 2021, viruses funded by NIAID.
[00:15:08]  Okay, so as a follow-up then, is Gain of Function still right now, as of today, actively being facilitated and sponsored by the United States government?
[00:15:19]  It most definitely is.
[00:15:21]  It's being done at the University of North Carolina, University of Wisconsin, University of Iowa, University of Nebraska, University of Texas and Galveston, a variety of universities in this country, and it should be illegal until we can get a handle on it and make sure that it's being used for good purposes and not this type of reason.
[00:15:39]  I mean, I just, politics is how we are supposed to sort this out.
[00:15:43]  Where are the Republicans saying, hey, maybe we should stop all domestic gain of function research?
[00:15:48]  What you're telling me, Doctor, is that we are at the precipice of another lab leak just any day now that could be a bioweapon that would make COVID-19 look like child's play.
[00:15:57]  Play cut 30 of John Kirby doing the spin of the regime, play cut 30.
[00:16:03]  Does the president believe, though, that the reward outweighs the risk when it comes to gain of function research?
[00:16:11]  He believes that it's important to help prevent future pandemics.
[00:16:20]  And this is why he wants the whole of government effort here to understand it, that that research has to be done.
[00:16:27]  It must be done.
[00:16:28]  That research needs to be done.
[00:16:30]  Well, I have two responses to that.
[00:16:32]  First off, the President of the United States isn't qualified to make a statement like that.
[00:16:36]  He's neither a scientist nor a physician.
[00:16:38]  So he's not qualified to make that type of comment.
[00:16:41]  As far as dual-use research is concerned, they can make great arguments for trying to stay ahead of it.
[00:16:48]  But when you change something genetically, you alter it so that something that doesn't exist now exists and it gets out and it kills over 1.1 million Americans, more than we've lost military soldiers since 1776, when the vaccines maim one and a half million Americans, more injured Americans than we've had suffered military losses since 1776, when more than 32,500 plus counting have died from vaccine injuries,
[00:17:18]  more deaths than we've lost in every war we've been involved with, except the five major, most major wars we've been involved with.
[00:17:26]  And we lose more people every week to COVID than we lost at Pearl Harbor or Twin Towers.
[00:17:31]  Explain to me and the rest of the American people and the people who've been harmed and injured how this is a benefit to society.

=== Disinformation and Cartels (11:03) ===

[00:17:40]  That was beautiful.
[00:17:40]  Dr. Fleming, thank you so much.
[00:17:42]  You're welcome back anytime.
[00:17:43]  Thank you.
[00:17:44]  My pleasure.
[00:17:45]  Thank you.
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[00:18:51]  Okay, this is a very important topic.
[00:18:53]  I'm going to do my best to navigate it with the great Darren Beatty.
[00:18:57]  I'm here.
[00:18:58]  Darren is with us.
[00:18:58]  Great.
[00:18:59]  Okay, Darren, over the weekend, there was a viral testimony that was basically an allegation against Katie Hobbs and with it, the entire ruling class of Arizona.
[00:19:14]  Now, whatever merits of these claims regarding Katie Hobbes' connection with the Mexican Sinola Drug Cartel, the reality of the cartels association is likely far worse.
[00:19:24]  Cooperation between certain drug cartels and U.S. agencies have been a long open secret.
[00:19:31]  So, Darren, you have this in your article.
[00:19:32]  Walk us through it.
[00:19:35]  Absolutely.
[00:19:36]  And I say it's a silver lining of this whole sort of recent viral episode that the public's attention can be drawn to what is really one of the darkest aspects of our government and its associations.
[00:19:52]  I can't speak to the allegations related to Hobbes.
[00:19:56]  My understanding is they're pretty explosive allegations, but I would like to see some evidence behind it.
[00:20:03]  Given my own reporting on Ray Epps and things, I was particularly aggressive in debunking rumors about EPS that I knew to be false because it discredited the actual scandal behind what was going on there.
[00:20:21]  And so there could be something similar here.
[00:20:24]  I don't know.
[00:20:25]  I haven't seen evidence, so we'll wait and see.
[00:20:27]  But as with many things, the truth is actually far darker than the rumors, the recent rumors.
[00:20:35]  And the truth is, there's been a long-standing association between the U.S. government and various cartels, including this Sinaloa cartel.
[00:20:47]  And if people go to revolver.news and look at the piece, it's up there.
[00:20:51]  It's right in the top five.
[00:20:53]  You can see video of a lot of fascinating testimony by some of the most celebrated and courageous narco-journalists in Mexico describing in depth the nature of this relationship, even to the point where now the Chinese have made alliances with certain cartels.
[00:21:14]  And so depending on which cartel one supports, that's sort of in the mix already into this kind of Cold War developing with China.
[00:21:23]  The cartels are part of the proxy wars in some weird way.
[00:21:28]  And, you know, I've had a conversation about this with Pesobiac, where I said, you know, the line that stuck with people was the purpose of the DEA is to go after the cartels that have fallen out of favor with the CIA.
[00:21:47]  And that captures an essential truth about how things operate at the intersection between the intelligence community and the underworld.
[00:21:58]  So our team spent some time researching this yesterday.
[00:22:02]  And just to kind of bring everybody up to date on what exactly, you know, was discussed and alleged, let's just let the tape play for itself.
[00:22:11]  Let's play cut 20, and then I'll call for 21, and then Darren explains it to our audience.
[00:22:16]  Let's play cut 20.
[00:22:18]  The Maricopa County database for the recorder's office and for the Superior Court were designed in 2014.
[00:22:24]  They were set up for outside infiltration so that falsified documents could be uploaded or legitimate documents removed.
[00:22:35]  Since 2004, elections within Pima County and Maricopa County have been manipulated through the infiltration of the county databases, resulting from bribes paid to executives at election service providers, including, but not limited to, principals at run back election services.
[00:22:53]  And now cut 21, please.
[00:22:56]  Public officials who have received bribes include multi-state office holders, state house and state senate, local office holders, county supervisors, judges in the Maricopa Supreme Court, judges of some city courts, including two presiding judges.
[00:23:11]  In the Superior Court of Maricopa County and Pinnell County and Pima County, at least 25% of the active judges have accepted bribes in exchange for protecting the racketeering activities.
[00:23:23]  By way of example, Mesa City Prosecutor Prosecutor's office routinely files charges and convicts innocent individuals who knowingly or unwittingly pose a threat to the racketeering enterprise.
[00:23:36]  So, Darren, summarize that for us and just explain in some detail what exactly is the allegation at play here.
[00:23:43]  Well, you know, I'm not sure precisely what the allegation is, frankly.
[00:23:48]  It's clearly some allegation of extensive corruption throughout the Arizona political process.
[00:23:55]  And, you know, frankly, it would be no shock to me to, you know, to hear if there's corruption going on.
[00:24:01]  The issue here is the specific allegations of bribes and then allegations of involvement with Sinaloa Cartel.
[00:24:11]  Again, could it be the case in theory?
[00:24:13]  Are these people beyond reproach?
[00:24:16]  No, but I think it's especially important for us, especially when we kind of, you know, when the allegations are confirming some of our prior ideas about how these people operate, it's really important to have some kind of receipts, some kind of evidence, some kind of substantiation.
[00:24:41]  Otherwise, it risks having people, well-meaning people, go along with it.
[00:24:46]  And then if it should be disproven or no evidence ends up emerging, then it discredits all of the legitimate and substantiated criticisms about these people and their conduct.
[00:25:03]  So Darren, I want to just switch topics here for a second.
[00:25:06]  And we had you on previously to talk about how the Biden regime and the UNI party have used 9-11 era laws and, let's say, precedent from the Patriot Act to now go after conservatives and MAGA Republicans.
[00:25:24]  I don't think this topic can be talked about enough.
[00:25:28]  And you've especially talked about this in regards to January 6th.
[00:25:31]  Can you just build that out a little bit more?
[00:25:33]  Because we're seeing growing and growing evidence that there's a supply and demand issue when it comes to quote-unquote terrorism.
[00:25:42]  When we think of terrorism, when conservatives in this audience think of terrorism, you probably conjure up an image of somebody that might be a radical Islamic terrorist or somebody that might be a foreign adversary that might want to bomb a building or hijack a plane.
[00:25:57]  But if you ask a rank and file FBI agent and they were to conjure up an image of a terrorist, it would be a white Midwestern Christian with a MAGA hat on.
[00:26:06]  Darren, why is this significant?
[00:26:08]  Well, it's significant because it speaks to this broad and really dangerous trend in our politics and society, which is the weaponization of the national security apparatus for political purposes.
[00:26:24]  And that's something that we've seen accelerate really dramatically since the really since the elevation of the Trump presidency.
[00:26:37]  But it's intensified pretty strongly in the past couple years.
[00:26:44]  And it's what you see, for instance, in January 6th, the whole idea of domestic terrorists and so forth.
[00:26:52]  That's casting over half the country that the regime objects to for political reasons as effectively as national security threats.
[00:27:03]  And once you've cast a group of people as national security threats, you've implicitly, if not overtly and explicitly, justified and even demanded the weaponization of the national security state against those people.
[00:27:19]  And so it's this dangerous trend of injecting the vocabulary and the posture of national security into what should be, you know, a regular course of domestic political disputes.
[00:27:33]  You even see it with this latest disinformation craze.
[00:27:37]  Like the term disinformation itself is a term of art.
[00:27:39]  Where did that come from, Darren?
[00:27:41]  I mean, what's the genesis of that term?
[00:27:44]  Where was it birth?
[00:27:47]  It's a term of art.
[00:27:48]  It comes from the intelligence community.
[00:27:50]  It comes from the corridors of psychological warfare.
[00:27:55]  And again, it used to be, you know, there are all other kind of smear words to shut people up that you don't agree with politically.
[00:28:02]  But what's special about disinformation is it says not only is this person reprehensible, not only should this person lose their job for, you know, having some naughty political opinion.
[00:28:12]  This person is a national security threat, engaged in disinformation in a way that some foreign adversary might deploy psychological warfare techniques against us.
[00:28:23]  So again, it really elevates the stakes of things and really brings conversations that should be within the ordinary sort of deliberative political process.
[00:28:37]  It takes them off the table as things to talk about because they become existential national security threats.

=== Chicago Mayor Corruption (06:05) ===

[00:28:43]  And the only answer is to shut them down and shut them up or just neutralize them even, put them in jail or worse, because of their political opinion.
[00:28:57]  It is a thought-terminating cliche, calling somebody a racist, somebody calling a bigot.
[00:29:02]  You hate women.
[00:29:03]  You hate you're transphobic or you spread disinformation.
[00:29:07]  In fact, tomorrow, I'm going to University of California Santa Barbara, and it's just so interesting to see the exact language the intel agencies used, the college campus activists put on all of their rallying cries to come after me.
[00:29:19]  Darren, you're a good American.
[00:29:20]  Check out Revolver.news.
[00:29:22]  Darren, thank you so much.
[00:29:23]  Thank you.
[00:29:26]  I admit it.
[00:29:27]  I am bitter about the people that are ruining my home.
[00:29:31]  They're actively ruining it.
[00:29:34]  And I know Chicago is a place where people make fun of it.
[00:29:38]  I hear, oh, Charlie, you know, you go to Chicago for the food, you stay because you get shot.
[00:29:41]  Yeah, okay, great.
[00:29:42]  It shouldn't have to be a laughingstock.
[00:29:45]  It has become that.
[00:29:46]  It was this Midwestern, muscular class, place of merit, not race politics and all this garbage.
[00:29:53]  You can say whatever you want about Mayor Daly, but Mayor Daly, the trains ran on time, the streets were largely safe.
[00:30:00]  The police had strong morale.
[00:30:01]  Oh, he was corrupt, but I would take corrupt Mayor Daly in a second over the ideologically radical Lori Lightfoot.
[00:30:09]  Beetlejuice.
[00:30:11]  So today is Election Day in Chicago.
[00:30:15]  Race for Chicago mayor.
[00:30:18]  Lori Lightfoot, who might be one of the worst public officials in Illinois history.
[00:30:24]  And let me just say that is a remarkable achievement because we've had some beauties over the last couple of decades.
[00:30:31]  As I say commonly in Chicago, one term in office, one term in jail, we have our own version of term limits.
[00:30:38]  And Lori Lightfoot has not just discontinued the destruction of Chicago.
[00:30:44]  She has done it while being belligerent, hyper-aggressive, never adjusting or having any sort of open-mindedness to solutions, almost as if she is cheerleading the downfall of the great city.
[00:31:00]  So there is a race.
[00:31:02]  There is Vallis, who is running, who is considered to be the more moderate candidate.
[00:31:07]  In fact, a lot of Republicans are supporting him.
[00:31:10]  And then there is Johnson, who has supported defunding the police.
[00:31:14]  And in third place, is just a poll, is Lori Lightfoot.
[00:31:20]  Now, complicating election night results is the surge of number of Chicagoans voting by mail.
[00:31:26]  And this is going to go to a runoff.
[00:31:27]  Nearly 210,000 people have requested those ballots, which can be postmarked as late as today, February 28th.
[00:31:34]  It could take two, three, or four days to really get a sense of how many mail and ballots they've got and when they know they'll be counted.
[00:31:42]  I am hopeful, though.
[00:31:44]  I am hopeful for just a little bit of sanity.
[00:31:46]  Give me some hope, Chicago, that this lunatic that has been ruining our home can be held accountable.
[00:31:53]  Please just not even have her get the runoff.
[00:31:56]  Make an example of her.
[00:31:58]  Really, is she that bad, Chicago?
[00:32:00]  Charlie, play cut 50.
[00:32:03]  I think in this one day, when we are looking at the two-year anniversary of my inauguration, as a woman of color, as a lesbian, it's important to me that diversity is put front and center.
[00:32:18]  Mayor Lori Lightfoot defending her most unusual decision to only invite black and brown journalists to her office for one-on-one interviews.
[00:32:27]  Only black journalists are allowed to interview her.
[00:32:29]  Play cut 49.
[00:32:35]  That is Lori Lightfoot dancing comically in the streets with a drumline band.
[00:32:40]  51.
[00:32:41]  I just explained it.
[00:32:42]  We have been in Little Village working with those street vendors, understanding what the nature of the crime is, making sure that we're doing things in concert with them to help them make sure that their money is secure, not use money if at all possible, using other forms of transactions to take care of themselves.
[00:33:00]  I have no idea what she just said.
[00:33:02]  Zero.
[00:33:02]  I don't think she either.
[00:33:04]  Cut 52, and then I'll make a final point on this.
[00:33:06]  Mayor Lightfoot saying some retailers are not doing their part to protect their own stores.
[00:33:11]  I'm disappointed that they're not doing more to take safety and make it a priority.
[00:33:17]  For example, we still have retailers that won't institute plans like having security officers in your stores.
[00:33:24]  Smash and grabs, Michigan Avenue almost vacant.
[00:33:29]  Remember when Lori Lightfoot said she was a public figure, so she deserved the right to get haircuts while nobody else did?
[00:33:35]  So there is a chance.
[00:33:36]  There is an opportunity.
[00:33:36]  Look, this Johnson guy is a total communist is what I'm told.
[00:33:39]  Vallas, I have no idea.
[00:33:41]  I don't trust him because if I remember my Illinois politics, he's no moderate, but he's running as a moderate.
[00:33:47]  That's less important to me.
[00:33:50]  It's probably just going to be another corrupt machine politician.
[00:33:52]  I yearn for a corrupt machine politician, by the way.
[00:33:55]  I want a corrupt machine politician over an ideological nimwit like Lori Lightfoot.
[00:34:02]  I would love to have somebody be paid off by the developers and always covering something up as long as the streets are clean, the schools are working, and I could walk Michigan Avenue again without having the threat of being mugged.
[00:34:13]  Lori Lightfoot, I sure hope that on this program, we are able to offer a political eulogy to you.
[00:34:19]  We're not there yet.
[00:34:20]  It's Chicago.
[00:34:21]  Anything can happen.
[00:34:21]  They vote early and vote often there.
[00:34:23]  But today, I pray that your political future comes to an end for the good of America and the good of one of the greatest cities in America.
[00:34:31]  I wish one day it can be that again.
[00:34:35]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:34:36]  Email me your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:34:40]  Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
[00:34:45]  For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.